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Sappho’s Exhortation to Learning
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Sappho, oil painting by Charles-Auguste Mengin (1877)
A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.
–Sappho (Σαπφω), The Exhortation to Learning (ca. 590 BCE)(W. Barnstone, transl.)
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